Schizoid and paranoid personality disorders have key differences. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) leads people to think that others are trying to harm them, while schizoid personality disorder ...

Schizophrenia involves periods of psychosis, with symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. Schizoid personality disorder is a persistent pattern of thoughts and behaviors that cause distress but ...

Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a type of mental health condition that may cause an individual to seem distant, blunt, or aloof. Treatment often involves psychotherapy to address social and ...

Schizoid personality disorder involves being detached and having little desire for close relationships. People with schizoid ...

My clients with schizoid personality disorder have experienced some combination of abuse, lack of attunement, neglect, and extreme intrusiveness in their early childhood. Many of them were also born ...

When you grow up in an oppressive and abusive home situation where you are treated as a thing and not a person with rights and feelings, you are likely to believe that you have only two choices: ...

Schizoid PD is characterized by emotional detachment and social disinterest, while schizotypal PD involves eccentric behavior, odd beliefs, and transient psychotic-like symptoms. Schizoid personality ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the ...